America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

The Conquest of Peru

5 pages in this part of America First.

The Conquest of Peru

Francisco Pizarro was a Spaniard of low birth, and was so ignorant that never in all his life did he learn to read and write. His parents…

The Conquest of Peru: Pizarro

Of course Pizarro wanted to conquer this land, just as Cortez had conquered Mexico. With a small party of men and some horses, he started…

The Conquest of Peru: Atahualpa

After a few months he found enough men and borrowed enough money to start afresh. He landed again on the Peruvian coast, and remained a…

The Conquest of Peru: Indians

He was now with about two hundred men in the heart of Peru, a thickly settled country of thousands of Indians, who could destroy him at any…

The Conquest of Peru: Christian

With him were five thousand soldiers, carrying clubs, slings, and bags of stones. The cortège halted in the great square, and Pizarro came…

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